List of fictional books from non-print media

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False documents are a frequent device in literature. This is a list of fictional books that appear in television, movies, music, video games, and other non-print media. Fictional books appearing in books are listed in List of fictional books. Fictional books appearing in comics, newspapers, and the like are listed in List of fictional books from periodicals.

Contents 1 Fictional books from TV series 1.1 Doctor Who 1.2 Monty Python 1.3 Murder, She Wrote 1.4 Family Guy 1.5 The Simpsons 1.6 Star Trek universe 1.7 The X-Files and Millennium 1.8 Miscellaneous from television 2 Fictional books from films 2.1 The Royal Tenenbaums 2.2 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2.3 In the Mouth of Madness 2.4 Miscellaneous from film 3 Fictional books from computer games 3.1 Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars 3.2 Monkey Island series 3.3 Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 3.4 Miscellaneous from games 4 Fictional books from music 5 References 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Fictional books from TV series

[edit] Doctor Who

• It's a Mystery! by T. Wilcox (a reference to Toyah Willcox)
• Origins of the Universe by Oolon Colluphid, from the Doctor Who serial Destiny of the Daleks — inserted by script-editor Douglas Adams as a cross-reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey
• The Zen Military: A History of UNIT by Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
• Everest in Easy Stages, author unknown

[edit] Monty Python

• My God, by theologian Monsignor Edward Gay
• Hello Sailor, by humanist lecturer Dr. Tom Jack
• The Problems of Kierkegaard, by Dr. Tom Jack

From the Bookshop Skit

• The Amazing Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet and her Intrepid Spaniel Stig among the Giant Pygmies of Beckles, Volume Eight presumably by Capt. Gladys Stoat-Pamphlet
• Biggles Combs his Hair, author unknown
• David Coperfield by Edmund Wells
• Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity-Surveying, author unknown
• The Gospel According to Charlie Drake, presumably by Charlie Drake
• Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells
• A Sale of Two Titties by Edmund Wells
• A Hundred and One Ways to Start a Fight by "an Irish gentleman whose name eludes me for the moment"^[1]
• Knickerless Nickleby by Edmund Wells
• Khristmas Karol by Edmund Wells
• Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds, expurgated version (the one without the gannet)
• Rarnaby Budge by Charles Dikkens, the well-known Dutch author
• Thirty Days In the Samarkand Desert with the Duchess of Kent by A.E.J. Elliott, O.B.E.

[edit] Murder, She Wrote

by J.B. Fletcher

• The Corpse Danced at Midnight
• Dirge for a Dead Dachshund
• A Faded Rose Beside Her
• Murder on the Amazon
• Lover's Revenge
• The Umbrella Murders
• Murder at the Inn
• Murder at the Digs
• Murder in a Minor Key
• The Stain on the Stairs
• The Mystery of the Mutilated Minion
• The Belgrade Murders
• Sanitarium of Death
• Calvin Canterbury's Revenge
• Murder at the Asylum
• Murder Comes to Maine
• Good-bye, Charlie
• The Corpse That Wasn't There
• Ashes, Ashes, Fall Down Dead
• The Messengers of Midnight
• The Poison in My Heart
• All the Murderers
• Murder at the Ridge Top
• The Corpse at Vespers
• The Triple Crown Murders
• The Crypt of Death
• A Killing at Hastings Rock
• The Uncaught
• Murder in White
• The Dead Must Sing
• The Killer Called Collect
• Stone Cold Dead
• Endangered
• The Launch Pad Murders
• Runway to Murder
• The Venomous Valentine
• A Case of a Half of Murder
• Yours Truly, Damian Sinclair
• The Dead Man Sang
• The Corpse Swam by Moonlight

[edit] Family Guy

• Caddyshack, the novelization
• T and Me by George Peppard
• For the Last Time, I'm Not Mr. T by Ving Rhames
• Nobody Poops But You, unsuccessful toilet training book, parody of Everyone Poops
• You're a Naughty Child, and That's Concentrated Evil Coming Out the Back of You, Catholic toilet training book
• Peter Griffin wrote a series of erotic novels dubbed "Peterotica":
  • Angela's Asses
  • Catcher in the Eye
  • Shaved New World
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick
  • What I Would Do Sexually to Hillary Clinton
  • The Hot Chick Who Was Italian or Maybe Some Kind of Spanish

[edit] The Simpsons

• Angelica Button and The Deadly Denouement
• Angelica Button and The Dragon King's Trundle Bed
• Angelica Button and the Teacup of Terror
• Astonishing Prices Comic Book Price Guide"
• Baby's First Pop-Up Book
• Backdoors to Citizenship, nonfiction
• The Big Book of British Smiles, photo book
• Bordello Repair Vol. I
• Bork on Sex
• A Child's Garden of Cons by Grifty McGrift, aka Grampa Simpson
• Curious George and the Ebola Virus, a children's book
• Forgotten Lore
• Happiness Is a Naked Steve Allen
• The Harpooned Heart by Marge Simpson
• The Harpooned Heart 2: Trouble Down Under by Marge Simpson
• How to Cook for Forty Humans, cookbook
• How to Get Rich Writing Cartoons by John Swartzwelder
• How to Loot Brazil
• How to Make Love to Steve Allen
• How to Seduce Your Lousy, Lazy Husband
• How to Talk to a Drunken Father
• How to Tunnel out of Prison
• A trilogy of autobiographic books by Leonard Nimoy (the first two of which are real)
  • I Am Not Spock
  • I Am Spock
  • I Am Also Scotty
• Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie: The Novel by Norman Mailer
• Journey to the Center of Steve Allen
• The Joy of Cooking Steve Allen
• The Joy of Cooking Milhouse
• Kosher Erotic Cakes
• Love in the Time of Scurvy
• Mapplethorpe, photo book
• Married Life: A Wife-Saving Guide
• Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, audio book, read by Paul Harvey
• Only Turkeys Have Left Wings by Birch Barlow
• Owning Your Okayness, self-help, by Brad Goodman
• Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future by Al Gore
• Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow by Al Gore
• Someone's In The Kitchen With Jesus by Rev. Timothy Lovejoy
• Tanks of the Third Reich
• The 10 Dos and 500 Don'ts of Knife Safety
• The Bible for Wise-Asses
• The Truth About Whacking Day by Bob Woodward
• Ueberroth, a biography
• Unidentified Flying Outrage!
• Weight Loss Through Laborious Sex
• Who Wants to Be a Brazillionaire?
• Will There Ever Be A Rainbow by Montgomery Burns, autobiography
• Your Gimmicky Restaurant by Bennigan and Fuddrucker

[edit] Star Trek universe

• Anslem (by Jake Sisko)
• Beyond the Galactic Edge, Humanity's Quest for Infinity (by Hesterman)
• Book of the Kosst Amojan (Bajoran)
• Book of the People, The (Fabrini)
• Burning Hearts of Qo'noS from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels
• Call of the Prophets, The (Bajoran)
• Cave Beyond Logic, A: Vulcan Perspectives on Platonic Thought (Vulcan)
• Chicago Mobs of the Twenties
• Collected Works of Jirex, The (Talaxian)
• Clash on the Fire Plains (Vulcan)
• Dictates of Poetics, The (by Vulcan writer T'Hain)
• Down the River Light (17-volume book by Caster)
• Dream of the Fire, The (Klingon)
• Eldaxon's Collected Folklore (Talaxian)
• Fall of Kang, The (by Klingon poet G'Trok)
• Falor's Journey (Vulcan)
• Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
• Finding and Winning your Perfect Mate (by Jennings Rain)
• Hotel Royale, The (by Todd Matthews)
• How to Advance Your Career Through Marriage
• Gaudaal's Lament (by Bajoran poet Akorem Laan)
• Kir'shara, The (by Surak of Vulcan)
• Kitara's Song (by Bajoran poet Akorem Laan)
• Leonard McCoy's Comparative Alien Physiology (by Leonard McCoy)
• Linear Models of Viral Propagation (by Katherine Pulaski)
• Meditations on a Crimson Shadow (Cardassian novel by Preloc)
• Never Ending Sacrifice, The (Cardassian)
• Nightingale Woman (by Phineas Tarbolde)
• Oo-mox for Fun and Profit
• Paq'batlh, The (Klingon religious text)
• Past Prologue (by Jake Sisko)
• Photons Be Free by the Doctor in Star Trek: Voyager
• Teachings of Surak, The (Vulcan, English translation by Skon)
• The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'nos (Star Trek VI - short title: The Klingon Hamlet)
• Vulcan Love Slave (or The Ardous Journey of T'Lana on the Road to Enlightenment) in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Women Warriors at the River of Blood from Star Trek: Voyager

[edit] The X-Files and Millennium

• A Lapful of Severed Tongues by Jose Chung
• Dance on the Blood-Dimmed Tide by Onan Goopta
• Doomsday Defense by Jose Chung
• From Outer Space by Jose Chung
• The Caligarian Candidate by Jose Chung
• The Hacked-Up Hack by Onan Goopta
• The Lonely Buddah by Jose Chung
• To Serve Man by Jose Chung

[edit] Miscellaneous from television

• A Dinner of Onions, from King of the Hill
• After Elizabeth Was Brought Home by Ed and Lois Smart, from MADtv
• Ants in My Picnic Basket by Susan Mayer, from Desperate Housewives
• Arkamada Book of Spells, from Ben Ten
• The Attraction Equation by Charles Eppes, from Numb3rs
• Astrophysics for Morons, from The Fairly OddParents
• Bandit Country: A Guide to Sucking off Men in the South West, a book on cottaging, from Monkey Dust
• The Baron's Demise, from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
• Baseball for Blondes, from Married with Children
• The Big Game by Donald O'Brien, from Seinfeld
• Birds of the Northwest Hemisphere, from Prison Break
• Blood on the Badge, a Joseph Wambaugh-style crime novel that Detective Harris has been working on for years, from the sitcom Barney Miller
• Blue Sands, from Black Books
• Boo! from Kids in the Hall
• Book of Origin, the most important Ori holy book, from Stargate SG-1
• The Book of Shadows, from Charmed
• Break in the ice, MADtv
• Capricorn Crude, Val's first book, obviously based on her husband's family, from Knots Landing
• Celebrity PI by S. E. Eckhart, from NCIS episode "Blackwater"
• Childrens do Learn by George W. Bush, from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Christmas for Village Idiots (Now With Bigger Etchings), from Shrek the Halls
• Classification of Demons, 1589, by Binsfield, from Supernatural episode "The Magnificent Seven"
• The Code of Masked Wrestling, from Mucha Lucha
• Cold Reading: The Secret of the Psychics, from South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
• A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables by Cosmo Kramer, from Seinfeld
• The Daily Mirror book of facts (Did you know?), from The Young Ones
• Elizabeth’s Favorite Taco Recipes by Ed and Lois Smart, from MADtv
• Empty Planet, a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by David Hansbury, from Criminal Minds episode "Empty Planet"
• The Erotic Reagan, from American Dad!
• Eternal Darkness: Avoiding the Light by Professor Melvin Caylo, from Blade: The Series
• Fair Game by Alton Benes, from Seinfeld
• Fearsome Gods by Malcolm Bryce (on living with a South American tribe), from Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode "Graansha".
• Football for Blondes, from Married with Children
• Girls Like it on Top by Sofia Reyes, from Ugly Betty
• The Great Big Book of Everything, from Stanley
• Great Machete Battles, from Futurama
• Ghost Envy for Dimwits, from Danny Phantom
• Gone With the Wind My Ass, by Nautica Brown, from Mad TV
• Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth by Al Gore, from Futurama
• History of the Hotel Matadora, from Blade: The Series episode "The Evil Within"
• How to Convince Women That You Are Psychic! (And Then Have Sex With Them), from South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
• How to be a Psychic, from South Park episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"
• How to Become a Fancy Waiter in Less than 20 Minutes, from SpongeBob SquarePants
• How to Furrow Your Brow, from American Dad
• How to Make Your Own Pop-up Book: Step by Step Instructions Anyone Can Follow! by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• How to Host Last Call with Carson Daly, Last Call with Carson Daly
• How to Torture, from SpongeBob SquarePants
• I Wanna Be A Ho and I Wanna Drive a Pink Cadillac, Wear Diamond Rings and Kick Women in the Butt - by Velvet Jones (played by Eddie Murphy) on Saturday Night Live
• In the Valley of Penises by Herbert Garrison, from South Park
• JKL YellowPages from Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Judging For Dummies, from MADtv
• Kids - You're Bigger Than They Are, from Married with Children
• Lets Not Go London, from The Simpsons
• The Long Journey Home, a book Beans had overdue from the library, from Even Stevens
• Love Muscle by Dave Foley, from The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
• The Loveliness of Woman, from King of the Hill
• The Male Sex Organ, from King of the Hill
• The Method Actor, from The Munsters
• A Million Little Fibers by Stephen McTowelie, from South Park episode A Million Little Fibers (parody of A Million Little Pieces)
• Mind Your Memory by Joe Hysen, from Keen Eddie
• Mugumbi Dream Time by Jason Hamilton, from Black Books
• My Big Thick Novel by Jack Handey, from Saturday Night Live
• Nashville Junction, Val's second book, based on her mother's life, from Knots Landing
• Necrobics - Hologrammatic Exercises For The Dead, from Red Dwarf
• The New Patriots Pop-up Book: A Three-Dimensional Instructional Telling You Everything You Need to Know about Building Bombs of all Shapes and Sizes by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• The Pop-up Book of Sports Related Deaths by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• Pop-up Kama-Sutra: Zero-Gravity Edition, from Red Dwarf
• Pop-up Pin-up by Chas Spielman, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• The Psychophysiological Indices of Ammorous Connections Among Termites of the Southwest, Home Improvement
• The Rat in Spats, a parody of The Cat in the Hat, from The Fairly OddParents
• Roger the Alien by Steve Smith, from American Dad!
• The Rooster Crowed at Midnight by Abigail Porterfield, from M*A*S*H
• Sex Horse by Dan Oster, from MADtv
• Shakespeare for complete idiots, from MADtv
• The Smell of Success by Napoleon LeNez, from Pushing Daisies episode "Smell of Success"
• Spontaneous Combustion: Myth and Fact by Professor Melvin Caylo, from Blade: The Series
• Sports With Balls, from Married with Children
• Sports Without Balls, from Married with Children
• Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure, from The Colbert Report
• Tap That by Phil Roth, from Ugly Betty
• Tempocalypse, from Black Books
• Theory of Advanced Physics, from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
• There's a Spider on Your Shoulder, from Kids in the Hall
• Thick as Thieves by Danny Spude, from Black Books
• "The Ultimate Guide to the Female Orgasim" MADtv
• Unbridled Passion by Dan Oster, from MADtv
• Uncle Frank's New Dictionary, from Jimmy Kimmel Live!
• Venetian Blinds by Art Vandalay, from Seinfeld
• What the Hell is Kwanzaa?, from Futurama
• Wild Mustang by Dan Oster, from MADtv
• Women Good, Men Bad, a 1980s pop-psychology book, from a Saturday Night Live sketch
• Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War by Zapp Brannigan, from Futurama

[edit] Fictional books from films

[edit] The Royal Tenenbaums

• Accounting for Everything: A Guide to Personal Finance by Henry Sherman (nonfiction)
• Dudley's World by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
• Erotic Transference by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
• Family of Geniuses by Etheline Tenenbaum
• Nakedness Tonight by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
• Old Custer by Eli Cash (novel)
• The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll by Raleigh St. Clair (nonfiction)
• Static Electricity by Margot Tenenbaum (play)
• Three Plays by Margot Tenenbaum
• Wildcat by Eli Cash (novel)

[edit] Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Most are parodies of a work, pointed to by the link.

• East of Edam
• Fromage to Eternity
• Waiting for Gouda
• The Hunt For Red Leicester
• How Green Was My Cheese
• Brighton Roquefort
• Grated Expectations
• Swiss Cheese Family Robinson
• Brie Encounter
• The Observer's Book of Monsters, by Claude Savagely. Parody of a popular Observer's Books series.

[edit] In the Mouth of Madness

• Breathing Tunnel by Sutter Cane
• The Feeding by Sutter Cane
• Hobb's End Horror by Sutter Cane
• In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Cane
• Something in the Cellar by Sutter Cane
• The Whisperer in the Dark by Sutter Cane

[edit] Miscellaneous from film

• 17,011 Things a Princess Must Know from MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
• Anyone Can Cook by Auguste Gusteau in Ratatouille.
• The Book of Crossroads in Pan's Labyrinth
• The Arsonist's Daughter by Grady Tripp in Wonder Boys
• Avalon Landing by William Forrester from Finding Forrester.
• Baby Steps by Leo Marvin from What About Bob?
• The Boat Rocker by Terence Mann from Field of Dreams.
• Blood and Swash by Mrs. Lucy Muir (Ghostwritten - as it were - for Captain Daniel Gregg), The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
• The Book by Bickford Shmeckler, from Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
• The Book of Secrets from National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• A Brief History of Slime in Flushed Away.
• Burn Book from Mean Girls
• The Complete Idiots Guide to Terrific Sex", The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Chef Man in Ratatouille.
• The Crosswords Book from Book of Love
• Death Therapy by Bob Wiley from What About Bob?
• Delomelanicon by Lucifer from The Ninth Gate.
• Down With Love by Barbara Novak from Down With Love.
• Driven: Compulsion and Obsession in Everyday Life by Margaret Ford from House of Games.
• Duplex by Alex Rose in Duplex
• Electricity for Dogs in A Grand Day Out
• Elf by Buddy in Elf
• Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Roadrunners But Were Afriad to Ask in Freeze Frame (cartoon)
• Express Your Creativity in Son of the Mask
• Fatty Foods and You by Jacqueline Turreau (Jennifer Coolidge) in Trial and Error
• A Guide for the Lonely Guy by Larry Hubbard, The Lonely Guy.
• Handbook for the Recently Deceased in Beetlejuice
• The First Time by Catherine Tramell (under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf), Basic Instinct
• Higgins' Universal Language by Henry Higgins, My Fair Lady
• How I Did It by Victor Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
• If Not Now... by Caterine Vauban, I ♥ Huckabees.
• Leon Zundinger's Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen in Ghostbusters II.
• Love Hurts by Catherine Tramell (under the pseudonym Catherine Woolf), Basic Instinct.
• Love Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry by Alex Sheldon, in Alex and Emma
• The Masks We Wear by Dr. Arthur Neuman, in The Mask.
• A Match Made in Space by George McFly from Back to the Future.
• Miracle Cures by Robin Kirkley from MADtv
• Murder at 11:17 in Duplex
• The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadows by Aristide Torchia, in The Ninth Gate
• One Hundred Girls I'd Like to Fuck in Throw Momma From the Train
• Owen, Momma and Owen's friend Larry pop-up book by Owen Lift in Throw Momma From the Train
• Pesticide and You by Jacqueline Turreau in Trial and Error
• Ready Set Let Go by Richard Clayton from Relative Strangers
• Refined Sugar and You by Jacqueline Turreau in Trial and Error
• Spoken Sanskrit by Colonel Hugh Pickering, My Fair Lady
• Straight Jacket by Marcus Skinner from Orange County
• Templar Treasure by Riley Poole, in National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• The Philosophy of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow, in Donnie Darko
• Throw Momma From the Train by Larry Donner in Throw Momma From the Train
• Tobin's Spirit Guide in Ghostbusters.
• Voodoo For Dummies in Bride of Chucky
• What to Expect the First Fifth-Thousand Miles in Robots.

[edit] Fictional books from computer games

[edit] Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

• Creative Shelving for Beginners
• The Crooked Crusader Caper by Molly Peagram (also known as Nigel Peagram), a medieval detective story
• The Crusader Families of Ireland by Molly Peagram (under the name of Professor Peagram)
• Hypnosis for Fun and Profit

[edit] Monkey Island series

• Big Whoop: Unclaimed Bonanza or Myth? and Great Shipwrecks of Our Century in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
  • See also the complete catalogue of Monkey Island fictional books.

[edit] Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

• Nonlinear Genetics by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• For I Have Tasted The Fruit by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• Address to the Faculty by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• The Feedback Principle by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• Now We Are Alone by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• See How They Run by Academician Prokhor Zakharov
• We Must Dissent by Sister Miriam Godwinson
• But For The Grace Of God by Sister Miriam Godwinson
• Looking God In The Eye by Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

[edit] Miscellaneous from games

• the Gran Grimore from final fantasy tactics advance
• The Book of Bú in the Little Big Adventure series of computer role-playing games.
• The Book of Mudora, an ancient text used to translate the dead language of Hylian in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
• The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom in the Ultima series of computer role-playing games.
• Encyclopedia Frobozzica in the Zork series of interactive fiction games.
• Magical Book or Book of Magic, a book that upgrades Link's Magic Wand in The Legend of Zelda.
• Jacob's Shadow in Deus Ex. [1]
• Return to Shadow Moses Island in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
• The Dark Prognosticus and its Light counterpart in Super Paper Mario.
• Loveless, and unfinished epic poem adapted into a stage play mentioned in Final Fantasy VII and its related games and movies.

[edit] Fictional books from music

• Origins of a World War by Rossignol, from the inner sleeve notes to Secret Treaties by Blue Öyster Cult, probably written by producer Sandy Pearlman

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of fictional books
• List of fictional television shows
• List of fictional musical works
• List of fictional comics
• List of fictional magazines
• List of fictional newspapers

[edit] External links

• The Fictional World of Archives, Art Galleries and Museums